Technical Product Manager

Robotics Technologies is hiring a Technical Product Manager for an onsite contract role in Austin, TX. This position will focus on UDS, the data platform behind the Commit & Overage Program, and will act as the bridge between business stakeholders and engineering teams. The role emphasizes requirements ownership, interface and payload/API contract design, and validation of delivered outcomes across the platform.

Role Summary

In this role, you will translate business needs into technical requirements and technical stories, then lead the detailed discussions that define how systems communicate. You will own payload and API contracts across UDS services, coordinate schema governance and change management, and ensure that engineering delivery aligns to reconciliation logic and extract outputs.

Responsibilities

• Translate business requirements from Finance, Sales, Deal Desk, and Legal into technical requirements and user stories with clear acceptance criteria.
• Lead payload-level design discussions, including event structures, field definitions, validation rules, and versioning.
• Own API contracts across UDS services: Ingestion, Processing, Extraction, and Reconciliation, along with integrations with CI, BRIM, Sales CRM, and CSP, including schema governance and change management.
• Partner with engineering on data model decisions, including partitioning and access patterns in Cosmos DB and event flows in Kafka.
• Define and prioritize the backlog, and manage dependencies with upstream and downstream system owners.
• Validate delivered work against requirements, including reconciliation logic and Snowflake/EDP extract outputs.

Requirements

• Hands-on technical background such as software engineering, QA/SDET, data engineering, or solution architecture, with strong understanding of how systems communicate.
• Experience writing or reviewing API specifications including REST, GraphQL, or event schemas such as JSON Schema or Avro.
• Comfort with JSON payloads, data modeling, and reasoning about data consistency and reconciliation.
• Experience writing user stories and acceptance criteria for backend or platform work.
• Ability to work at technical depth with engineers and challenge assumptions when requirements have hidden implications.
• Experience collaborating across multiple stakeholder groups on complex, cross-functional programs.

Tech Stack

• Cosmos DB, Kafka, Snowflake, REST, GraphQL, JSON Schema, Avro, JSON

Contract Details

• Location: Austin, TX (onsite)
• Duration: 10 Months + Extension
• Job ID: J53955
• Compensation: USD 61 per hour
• Employment type: W-2, 1099, C2C
• Bill rate: $61/hour (C2C)
• Work authorization: US Citizen, Green Card, OPT-EAD, CPT, H-1B, H4-EAD, Other
• Client: To Be Discussed Later